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Afonso I [a] (Portuguese pronunciation:; 1106/1109/1111 – 1185), also called Afonso Henriques, nicknamed the Conqueror (Portuguese: O Conquistador) and the Founder (Portuguese: O Fundador) [2] [3] by the Portuguese, was the first king of Portugal.
The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-1-5128-0612-0. McMurdo, Edward (1888). The History of Portugal: From the Commencement of the Monarchy to the Reign of Alfonso III. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Portugal 1964. Diario de Lisbõa. 1964.
The Luso–Leonese War of 1167–1169 was a military conflict fought between the Kingdom of León and the Kingdom of Portugal.This war began and ended within the framework of the Reconquista, where the Christian kingdoms expelled the numerous Muslim kingdoms from the Iberian Peninsula.
Alfonso I of Asturias (739–757), king of Asturias; Afonso I of Portugal (1094–1185), king of Portugal; Alfonso Jordan (1103–1148), count of Toulouse; Alfonso I of Aragon (1104–1134), known as Alfonso the Battler, king of Aragon and Navarre; Alfonso I, Duke of Gandia (1332–1412) Alfonso V of Aragon (1396–1458), king of Naples as ...
Alfonso I of Portugal defeats his cousin Alfonso VII of León and Castile at the Battle of Valdevez. [242] (Approximate). The Castilian epic poem about El Cid, Cantar de mio Cid, is written. [243] (Approximate). The Chanson de Guillaume, a chanson de geste about William of Gellone, is written. [244] 1142. May – June.
Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula in 1157. Afonso had already won many victories over the Moors. At the beginning of his reign the religious fervor which had sustained the Almoravid dynasty was rapidly subsiding; in Portugal independent Moorish chiefs ruled over cities and petty taifa states, ignoring the central government; in Africa the Almohades were destroying the remnants of the ...
Afonso I Henriques (1109–1185), King of Portugal from 1139 to 1185; Afonso II of Portugal (1185–1223), King of Portugal from 1212 to 1223; Afonso III of Portugal (1210–1279), King of Portugal from 1248 to 1279; Afonso IV of Portugal (1291–1357), King of Portugal from 1325 to 1357; Afonso V of Portugal (1432–1481), King of Portugal ...
Dom Afonso I of Braganza (Portuguese pronunciation:; 10 August 1377 – 15 December 1461) was the first duke of Braganza and the eighth count of Barcelos.He founded the House of Braganza, the most powerful and wealthy dynasty in Portugal.